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The M&G is not immune to criticism. We have made many mistakes over the years. What we can be unequivocal about, however, is that a blow to anyone in the news media is a gut…

The Mail & Guardian matters: Looking back in admiration

As staff face retrenchments, a print dinosaur gives three (relative) hatchlings the microphone

Buying food on credit is symptomatic of a bigger problem. Consumers who have experienced a change in their financial standing, either through retrenchments or pay cuts, are in trouble and taking on more expensive debt is only going to make it worse.  (Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Consumers buy cornflakes on credit

As millions join the unemployment ranks, relying on debt to make ends meet becomes more attractive

Employers have been forced to choose between retrenching employees, cutting salaries or regarding the lockdown as the employees’ annual leave.  (AFP)

Covid-19 could have an effect on labour law

Identifying three possible disputes that may be a real issue in South Africa

Ingonyama Trust Board chairperson Jerome Ngwenya.

Reinstated Ingonyama Trust managers hit with retrenchment notices

The effect of Covid-19 and the land reform department’s freeze of R23-million because the ITB didn’t comply with budget submissions are cited as some of the reasons for the staff…

Minister of Employment and Labour Thulas Nxesi has warned that large-scale job losses are inevitable. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Possible lockdown retrenchments are already soaring

After just three months of lockdown, more than 100 000 workers could lose their jobs

SABC plans to retrench 600 employees

Broadcaster cites “poor sales effectiveness, ineffective commercial product, old pricing models and inadequate technology infrastructure” as driving cuts